Who's This Twat

First of all, I'm a dude.  I know this blog is called "Mulder She Wrote", which heavily implies that I am a woman, but I'm not.  I am woman-like in a variety of ways, but unfortunately I have a prick.

Hullo, I am Stu.  Why am I blogging The X-Files?

Well, obviously, it's because I love the shit out of it.  It's my favourite show, pretty much.  9 seasons of brilliant, thrilling telly, in which even the crap episodes are still a cut above.  I loved this show several years before I even saw an episode, thanks to my local libraries ordering in all the episode guides at the height of the show's popularity, which I read cover to cover, memorising episode titles and orders years before I ever got hold of the DVDs.

I never did watch the show on its original run - parents wouldn't let me (too scary), and to be honest I would have wimped out anyway.  Reading the synopsis for season 2's "Fresh Bones" put the fear up me all by itself.  Bollocks to actually watching it.

'Course, eventually, I found season 1 in a charity shop for about a tenner and took the plunge, now old enough to actually take control of my life and watch the episodes I'd obsessed over in print, finally find out what came beyond season 5.  And it was great, obviously.  Absolutely cracking.  Seasons 1 to 4 are pretty much classic after classic, and I loved watching them.  The DVD format meant that there was no waiting to be done whatsoever; I could simply absorb the excellence entirely at my leisure.

I'm actually only just now watching season 8 - I ignored it for years (no Mulder!?  GET THIS OFF MY TELLY) until I saw it on eBay for about a fiver.  Couldn't really say no, so I snapped it up and dove in.  It's much better than I had expected, and it's the reason I've decided to blog the series.

I don't know what I can bring to the table outside of my own perspective on each episode.  I haven't decided on a format just yet, either, and as you can see this blog is very much barebones.  Basically, I'll be offering critique on each and every episode of the series and both movies, as well as any other silly X-Files shit I can get my hands on - might take a look at the Topps comics, for example.

At any rate, I hope you will be reading, as it should be fun for everyone.  I'll try to keep it fresh.  Wish me luck.